Director of Student Services

REPORTS TO

Assistant Superintendent of Support Services

FLSA STATUS

Exempt

SUPERVISES

Yes

DEPT

Student Services

FTE

1.0

WORK CALENDAR

248

GRADE

Director

APPROVED

1/26/2022

REVISED

05/05/2026

SUMMARY: The Director of Student Services provides leadership and oversight for student discipline, safety, and support systems across the district. This role directs student discipline processes, including threat assessments and long-term suspension hearings, while managing comprehensive student support services. The Director serves as a key liaison between schools, families, and the community, ensuring effective resolution of concerns and coordination of internal and external support services, including social work programs and partnerships with outside agencies.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between principals, district departments, and families regarding parent complaints and community concerns, facilitating timely and effective resolutions.
• Coordinate and conduct district-level expulsion, long-term suspension, and readmission hearings.
• Supervise and support district lead nurse and nursing department.
• Oversee and implement district discipline programs, including alternatives to suspension and PreK–4 prevention initiatives.
• Lead the development, review, and annual revision of district parent-student handbooks.
• Advise site and district administrators on policies, procedures, and best practices related to student discipline, safety, and parent concerns.
• Administer the district’s threat assessment process, including training and compliance monitoring.
• Direct district responses related to student custody issues, attendance, and access to student records.
• Assist in the planning and coordination of the annual high school graduation ceremony.
• Support and coordinate programs related to school safety and crisis response/intervention.
• Develop and manage budgets related to student services and assigned program areas.
• Oversee the development, training, and implementation of school safety, emergency preparedness, and crisis response plans.
• Develop, monitor, and evaluate special programs aligned with student services and district priorities.
• Supervise the Safety Coordinator and oversee assigned responsibilities.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with students, staff, families, community members, and external partners.
• Maintain high standards of ethical conduct and confidentiality in all matters.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
  
  

Education And Experience

• Minimum of three (3) years of administrative experience required; principal-level experience or higher preferred.
• Experience in conflict resolution preferred.
• Grant writing experience preferred.
• Experience administering policies related to bullying, threat assessment, student discipline, and attendance, including due process hearings, preferred.
• Experience in emergency management and crisis response is preferred.
  
  

Licensing/Certifications

• Obtain and maintain a valid Arizona Identity Verified Prints (IVP) Fingerprint Clearance Card (AZ IVP FPCC).
  
  

Knowledge Of

• Applicable Federal, state, county, and city statutes, rules, policies, and procedures.
• Applicable Dysart Unified School District and departmental policies and procedures.
• Supervisory principles, practices and techniques.
• Practices and methods of coaching and leading the work of others.
• Principles and practices of budgeting and fiscal management.
• Principles and applications of critical thinking and analysis.
• Principles and techniques of effective oral presentations.
• Conflict resolution and negotiation strategies.
• Principles and practices of strategic planning.
• Principles and practices of group facilitation and building consensus.
• Customer service principles.
• Modern office technology.
  
  

Skill In

• Managing, supervising, evaluating and motivating staff.
• Training, coaching and overseeing the development of staff.
• Directing the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and work standards.
• Reviewing research and implementing industry trends, solutions and best practices.
• Directing the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of written materials and statistical data for reports and recommendations.
• Authoring and editing complex reports and documents.
• Facilitating group discussions and building consensus using persuasive reasoning.
• Facilitating effective collaboration.
• Providing mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution.
• Managing budgets and allocating resources to achieve strategic objectives.
• Exercising strategic and political acumen, tact and diplomacy.
• Public speaking.
• Interpreting and applying applicable laws, codes, regulations and standards.
• Providing customer service.
• Utilizing a computer and relevant software applications.
• Utilizing communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisors, the general public and others to sufficiently exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
  
  

Ada And Other Requirements

Positions in this class typically require: balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, fingering, grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.

Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.

Working Conditions

Work is routinely performed in an indoor, office environment; may require some work in the field with moderate exposure to travel.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed by this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.

The Dysart Unified School District is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer in compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil Rights Act Title VII of 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. Dysart Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability or age in employment or in any of its educational programs or in the provisions of benefits and services to students.